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5.14d First Ascent for Adam Ondra

Adam Ondra has journeyed back to Norway's Hanshalleren cave outside of Flatanger where he is focussing on bolting and climbing new routes. Filmmaker Petr Pavlíček has been documenting the scene and reports via 8a.nu that Ondra has just completed a new 5.14d. "It is rather short, compared to the other lines in this incredible cave, but it has super nice, hard bouldery moves and a really tricky dyno, very low above the ground, into a tiny hold which you cannot see," says Pavlíček. This is just one of four projects that Ondra has completed this May, having also added a new 5.13b, 5.14a and 5.14c to the cave. However, Pavlíček claims that these new routes are just warm ups for Ondra's super hard projects. Stay tuned ...

Check out this teaser to Pavlíček's movie Change, which documents Ondra's first ascent of the world's first 5.15c in Norway.